Attack on Prosecutor Ferrero: Seven convicted, trips to Bolivia and Marset connection revealed
Two additional convictions in the attack on Uruguayan prosecutor Mónica Ferrero in 2025. Daniel Garaza, the intellectual author, received seven years and three months in prison.
Convicted for the attack on Prosecutor Ferrero: trips to Bolivia and links with Marset exposed
According to kchcomunicacion.com, last week new convictions were handed down for the attack on 28 September 2025 against Mónica Ferrero, Attorney General of Uruguay. That early morning, individuals dressed in black, hooded and wearing gloves climbed onto the roofs of her residence, fired three times and hurled a grenade that exploded in the courtyard. Ferrero herself stated that she narrowly escaped death, missing fatal injury by just 15 centimetres.
Daniel Alejandro Garaza was found guilty as the intellectual author of the offences of criminal association, aggravated attempted murder and aggravated destruction of property. The sentence imposed was seven years and three months in prison. Garaza devised the attack together with his father, Jorge, a former police officer previously convicted for links with drug trafficker Sebastián Marset. Marset, arrested in Bolivia in March, will be tried in the United States for money laundering and drug trafficking.
The judicial investigation established that Garaza travelled to Bolivia on two occasions to plan the assault. The first trip took place in February 2025, seven months before the attack, from Brazil, together with Adrián Arrigoni—also already convicted—who recruited participants. At that time, Garaza was wanted by Uruguayan justice and it is presumed that he evaded migration controls to enter the country.
A second trip occurred weeks before the attack. Garaza was in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, the same city where Marset was captured, and applied for temporary residency there for two years. He returned to Uruguay on 25 September, just three days before ordering the assault on Ferrero's home. To return to the country, he took a flight to São Paulo, then another to Pelotas, and arrived clandestinely. His father Jorge went to pick him up.
Following the attack, Garaza coordinated the destruction of evidence. According to the judgment, he even contemplated the possibility of murdering one of the actual perpetrators to eliminate any connection to the crime. In a conversation with Arrigoni, he expressed his concern about traces left behind: "You're saying there are wig fibres? We'd better take them out, then."
The other person convicted last week was Leonardo Washington Pereira, who participated in the logistics of the attack. He waited outside Ferrero's residence to ensure the group's escape. At 04:18 he was identified driving a Volkswagen Bora which, along with a Great Wall pick-up truck, was used to flee the scene. Pereira was sentenced for aggravated criminal association and receipt of stolen goods, and as co-perpetrator of aggravated attempted murder, destruction of property and arson. He must serve eight years in prison.
With these two new convictions, six people have been prosecuted and sentenced in total for the attack on the prosecutor. On the day of the incident, President Yamandú Orsi communicated with his predecessor Luis Lacalle Pou, and there was political consensus to condemn the incident. The authorities pointed from the outset towards Sebastián Marset as the possible person responsible for the criminal plan.
Source: Google News BO — Crime